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i I CHAUNCEY M. COUTANT AND RICHARD BENSON, OF GRAWFORDSVILIJEJND.

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UNITED STATEs PATENT OFFICE.

.' WAGON-BODY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 273,967, dated March 13, 1883.

Application tiled September 30.1882. (No modeLl To all whom it may concern.-

YBe it known that we, CHAUNcEY M. Cou- TANT and RICHARD BENSON, citizens of the United States, and residents of Grawt'ordsville, in the county of Montgomery and State of Indiana, have invented a new and valuable Im` provement in Tagen 'and Carriage Bodies; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation ot' the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings,.mak ing a part'ot this speeitication, and to theletters and gures of reference marked thereon.

Figures l and 2 are partial plan views. Figs. Saud 4 are sectional detail views.

This invention has relation to wagon-bodies;

` and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claim appended.

In the drawings, A indicates the frame or sills of the vehicle-body, and B the sides or Y panels.

In order to secure the panels to the sills, I forni in the' under side ot the sills and the lower edge of the panel a suitable number of dovetailmortises, C, part of each mortise being in the sill and partiu the panel. I then t -the dovetail plugs l) into these mortises, whereby the panels willbe securelyheldagainst'the sills. As a convenient Way of forming the plugs,.a long dovetailed wooden strip can be provided, and after driving one end well up into a mortise the strip can be sawed oft' and then driven in like manner into the next mortise. The corner-posts E are made rectangular in cross-section, and provided with beveled vertical edges. These posts are fitted in recesses formed in the. panels at the four corners of the body, and therebyhold the meeting ends of the panels together without the employment of nails or screws. The said posts also have their lower ends received in part in mortises in the end sills of the body; or, if'preferred, separate pieces formed in `the same way as the posts can be fitted in the ends ot' the sill and the meeting ends of the panels below the posts. i

The supports F for the bars G, on which the seat is held, are dovetailed on their inner sides and itted in dovetailed mortises Hin the panels. Adoubledovetailedmortiseisalso formed in the upper edge of the panel and the bar G, and a plug iitted in said mortise.

These bars can extend down through dovetailed recesses formed in the sills and the panels, or they can terminate at or slightly below the top of the sills and plugs tted in the in ortises formed in the sills and the panels. t

From the foregoing it will be seen that the use of nails and screws is avoided, and hence the appearance of the vehicle is not marred.

Having described our invention, whatwe claim is- In a wagon-body, the combination, with the posts F, dovetailed on their inner sides to fit the dovetailed mortises H in the panels B, of the seat-bar G, dovetailed to correspond with the duvet-ail G of the panels, and the plugs D, substantially as specified.

In testimony that We claim theabove we have hereunto subscribed our naines in the presence of two witnesses.

MELVILLE W. BEUNER, JOHN H. BUREQRD. 

